n it. And the rations, and shilling a day, were they
provided thee,--reduced as I have known brave Jean-Pauls,
learning their exercise, to live on 'water _without_ the bread?'
The rations; or any furtherance of promotion to corporalship,
lance-corporalship, or due cato'-nine tails, with the slightest
reference to thy deserts, were not provided. Forethought, even
as of a pipe-clayed drill-sergeant, did not preside over thee.
To corporalship, lance-corporalship, thou didst attain; alas,
also to the halberts and cat: but thy rewarder and punisher
seemed blind as the Deluge: neither lancecorporalship, nor
even drummer's cat, because both appeared delirious, brought
thee due profit.

It was well, all this, we know;--and yet it was not well! Forty
soldiers, I am told, will disperse the largest Spitalfields mob:
forty to ten-thousand, that is the proportion between drilled and
undrilled. Much there is which cannot yet be organised in this
world; but somewhat also which can, somewhat also which must.
When one thinks, for example, what Books are becoming for us,
what Operative Lancashires are become; what a Fourth Estate, and
innumerable Virtualities not yet got to be Actualities are become
and becoming,--one sees Organisms enough in the dim huge Future;
and 'United Services' quite other than the redcoat one; and
much, even in these years, struggling to be born!

Of Time-Bill, Factory-Bill and other such Bills the present
Editor has no authority to speak. He knows not, it is for others
than he to know, in what specific ways it may be feasible to
interfere, with Legislation, between the Workers and the Master-
Workers;--knows only and sees, what all men are beginning to see,
that Legislative interference, and interferences not a few are
indispensable; that as a lawless anarchy of supply-and-demand,
on market-wages alone, this province of things cannot longer be
left. Nay interference has begun: there are already Factory
Inspectors,--who seem to have no _lack_ of work. Perhaps there
might be Mine-Inspectors too:--might there not be Furrowfield
Inspectors withal, and ascertain for us how on seven and sixpence
a week a human family does live! Interference has begun; it
must continue, must extensively enlarge itself, deepen and
sharpen itself. Such things cannot longer be idly lapped in
darkness, and suffered to go on unseen: the Heavens do see them;
the curse, not the blessing of the Heavens is on an Earth